A comparative study of stylistics of fantasy in English and Persian children's literature

Fantasy as a genre is regarded as imagination about a subject in the past or an event in the future that is not real now, but relies on individual's knowledge and imagination. Fantasy literature, as it stands today, arose in Europe in the eighteenth century, the age of Enlightenment, in Europe, although its elements exist in ancient myths and legends. In this research, we have studied the works in the field of children's fantasy literature in both Persian and English languages from the perspective of linguistic stylistics. To do this, we chose Beatrix Potter series in English and the collection of Small Stories for Small Children in Persian. The results show that fantasy as a branch of literature in Persian and English has significant differences and similarities.